Course Details

Geographic Information Systems

Academic Year 2025/26

NSA014 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIV Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to GIS, ArcGIS application performance, basic work with ArcGIS applications, WMS connection.
  • 2. Coordinate systems, georeferencing.
  • 3. Basic work with model data. Prepared data. Creation of map outputs (layout).
  • 4. Editing in ArcGIS, creation of new shapefile, working with tools in ArcToolbox, creating text and labeling.
  • 5. Transmission of new data on which students work alone, as they have learned in previous lessons. Basic setup of the project, creation of map outputs (layout).
  • 6. Making DMT in ArcGIS and basic topographical and hydrological modeling.
  • 7.–8. Preparing data in ArcGIS for the calculation in the program DesQ.
  • 9. Preparing the data for the calculation of soil loss.
  • 10. Preparation of input data in ArcGIS for the ATLAS program.
  • 11. Working in the ATLAS program, creation of DME, longitudinal and cross sections of rural roads.
  • 12. Working with the program ATLAS – continued, longitudinal and cross sections of rural roads.
  • 13. Test.